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Rob Baker
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“In ninth century al-Andalus she serves the right tea , at the right time. In diamond city of Zhang she strangled a man with a silken cord. She seeds the Strand 9 Amazon Basin with defanged versions of European superbugs ten centuries before first contact, and when conquistadors arrive, they face strong thriving communities that won’t perish by mere contact with the world across the waves” (85).
— Jun 27, 2023 02:28AM
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Rob Baker
is on page 70 of 209
“Each (time thread) has facets, barbs, useful in different ways, depending on articulation. The novice believes a single change will make a thread thus, or thus. An event—an invasion or a spasm or a sigh—is like a hammer…and Luke hammers you store Atlantises out of sight when not in use…(59).
— Jun 25, 2023 04:59AM
Rob Baker
is on page 55 of 209
“The letter begins in the trees heart. Rings, thicker here and thinner there, form symbols in an alphabet no one present knows but Red. The words are small, sometimes smudged, but still: ten years per line of text, and many lines. Mapping roots, depositing or draining nutrients year by year, the message must have taken a century to craft” (34).
— Jun 24, 2023 04:19AM
